Another from the back of the safe...
 

This one is a pretty rare L. C. Smith 4E 16 gauge, one of about 30 16s made in this grade, 18 with 28" barrels like mine. It's made on the regular frame and has really nice Damascus barrels with tight chokes. It works well on quail in the open country, and will take a pheasant when and if we stumble on one.

Very nice! The best engraving can be found on LC Smiths

Garry,

The back your safe has some interesting finds!

Ken

I’ve always loved the look of Elsies. That one is lovely.

I'd imagine a lot of us could get lost for weeks in the back of your safe, very nice Elsie Gary!!

Gary: Nice LC. It seems to me that all (or most) of the higher grade early Smiths used some really nice chain Damascus. Your look to be in that arena.

Bruce, I agree on the chain Damascus. It's very reminiscent of Bernard pattern barrels to me.

Keep looking Garry... There may be a nice GH back there you don't need :corn:

very nice lc smith the 4 e is a very rare bird for sure...I have a 4 e in the early engraveing but it is a 12 ga....thanks for showing us......charlie

I managed to find a Crown Grade 16 GA with 26 in barrels two years ago. It is now in the hands of a well known LC Smith collector in Maryland. It made the LC Smith newsletter.

When I was gunning Springer trials, the best trial gunner I ever shot with shot a 30" Crown grade. He had restocked it into a non-original configuration, but the pheasants never knew what hit them

Dang! After seeing Garry's posts I looked in the back of my gun cabinet but...:crying:

I have my Grandpa's Hamilton Model 27 in the back of my safe.... It's not nearly as pretty as the stuff Gary seems to pull out of his.... :D

Karl, Two 0 frame GH 16s, one, an 1890s Damascus, and the other a 1920s fluid steel gun, also with 28 inch barrels. The last gun is a GH 20 built in 1920.

Gary: That 20 is FINE !

The back of my safe is not near as interesting, but there are some guns that havent seen the field for a good while--a Sterlingworth 20, 2 SW 16's, and a SW 12 pin gun, a Durstan Special 20 with ejectors and Lefever G 16, my first Parker, a 1 frame 16 28" did make it out for pheasant this year.

Those all sound worthy of a hunt...and a posted picture(?)

Charlie, Here's the safe-mate to the 4E 16, an earlier grade 4 12 gauge. It has as nice a piece of wood as I have ever seen, and sports what I believe is an original skeleton steel butt plate. Alas, no records exist for this nice gun.

I knew you could find something Garry... The GH 16 with the fluid steel barrels will work just fine for me ... let me know when and where to send the check :whistle:

my 4 e and yours could be brothers....charlie

Since we are on 16 ga Smiths from the back of the safe...
 

Here is a 16 ga Monogram Smith that came to me at the expense of several guns that used to be in the back of my safe....

30 inch barrels...

Very nice 16!

WOW! Just WOW!